Broad City (Season One)

Broad City now registers as a period piece, a reflection of a bygone era where the outlook towards the future was mostly positive and it seemed fourth-wave feminism would do more to guide the zeitgeist than dollar-store fascism helmed by a charismatic dingus. (I’d say no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Americans, but, well, he did!) Its value for modern audiences, then, must come from its comic chops, something City excelled at despite its often lowbrow punchlines—the payoff to Abbi’s windfall had me rolling all these years later. A delight, mid-2010s cringe and infrequent AAVE notwithstanding.

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